37. Grants skill

"Ward did you-"

"Yes, now help Simmons maintain her cover" replied Grant cutting her questioning in between. Somehow Grant was able to shoot Donnie even though there was a wall of Hydra soldiers standing in between him and Donnie. If Skye had been focusing on Donnie then she would have found out that he wasn't hit with the ICER from the back but instead on the side of his head where no one was standing.

Thanks to his Observation of Haki and inhuman strength, stretchability, and hours of practice in the gun range Grant was able to curve the bullet to hit Donnie from the side. Currently, Grant could use the curve shot with an ICER because it was lighter than a normal bullet and easy to manipulate for the normal bullets Grant had to carve them to engrave them which helps in altering its flight pattern.

Skye fakes a shot on Bakshi, allowing Simmons to pretend to save him. They leave, leaving the cargo on the HYDRA ship for S.H.I.E.L.D. to take.

Grant runs towards the body of Donnie Gill laying on the ground and checks his condition to make sure he is only knocked out.

"Donnie was taken out, Simmons cover is safe," said Skye through her comms.

"Umm... Skye, he is only knocked out, I used the ICER bullets" said Grant through the Comms allowing the others to know that they have captured their primary target.

"Shoot few more ICER bullets for extra measures the Bus doesn't have a prison to keep a gifted person," Coulson said to which Grant happily complied and shot Donnie with two more ICER bullets.

After taking Donnie back to the Bus, Coulson called for a briefing to know exactly what happened.

As Grant explained how he took care of Donnie Gill, Skye couldn't help herself and ask "How did you shoot him? There was a wall of soldiers between you and him"

"I curved the bullet to hit him from the side," Grant replied truthfully but the reaction he got from others wasn't what he was expecting.

"Great and I do bench press at 1 ton" Trip said

"Come on mate at least lie a believable lie," said Hunter while shaking his head.

Coulson and May just stared at him without any expression only Skye had a thoughtful look as if she half-believed because she was there and was at a higher vantage point so she knew it wasn't possible for Grant to hit Donnie Gill but somehow he still did it.

"One of you will have to watch over Donnie, we can't have him wake up before we reach Playground," Coulson said ignoring Ward's comment, to him it was Ward's poor attempt to crack a joke meaning he had started to get better.

Ward took it upon himself to watch over Donnie Gill for the rest of the trip back to the Playground. Currently, he was sitting in the interrogation room with Donnie laying on the ground in a corner of the room.

Skye knocked on the door as she opened it to find, Ward still staring at Donnie and haven't even bothered to look towards the door to see who entered the room.

"Is there something you want to ask me Skye?" asked Grant while still starting at Donnie

Skye was a little surprised that he found out it was her without even turning his head.

"How did you found out it was me?" asked Skye her curiosity at Grant's apparent increase in mysteriousness getting better of her.

"If I can't even distinguish you from the others then wouldn't my title as the Agent Extraordinaire just be for the show" replied Grant in an amused tone.

Skye scoffed as she walked forward to stand in front of Grant causing him to raise his head and look at her.

"What happened to your speech of 'never lying to me' tell me the truth Grant?" asked Skye

"It wasn't really a lie, I do just know when you are in the same room as me that's all," Grant said struggling his shoulders.

"Haa... would you believe it, of you were in my place," asked Skye

"I won't but that doesn't mean I won't try to test it" Grant replied

"And how would I test it?" asked Skye

"It's quite simple, blindfold me and walk out of the room leaving the door open. Whenever you enter the room, I will call you out if I fail even once then it means I am lying and if not then it means I am telling the truth" Grant said

"You want to be blindfolded when you are watching over him," asked Skye as she pointed towards Donnie Gill

"I shot him with 3 ICER bullets. Even if he was physically enhanced it would keep him knocked out for hours but he is not so it would take a lot of time for him to wake up" Grant stated

"Fine then let's do it," Skye said as she walked out of the room and after a minute or returned back with a blindfold.

After blindfolding Ward, Skye said "If you are wrong even once then it means you are lying"

"Yes yes, I understand" Grant said nodding his head.

Skye didn't reply anymore and started to walk towards the door.

"Bye," said Grant as Skye reached the door surprising her.

Just like that Skye and Grant started to play the game of find me. Every time Skye entered the interrogation room or left Grant would welcome her or say bye to her, frustrating Skye in the process no matter what she did and how stealthily she walked, Grant would always find her.

"Does he have a spiritual eye or what?" Skye said as she looked at Grant from the other side of the glass to look into the interrogation room, "I am not going to lose even if I have to crawl fit that"

Skye had even forgotten why they were doing this test and just wanted to beat Grant right now.

This time when she entered the room she did it by crawling over. After entering she saw that Grant didn't immediately called her out and couldn't help but smile thinking that she had won and started to stand up. But just as she did, Grant stood up from his seat making Skye stand in her place like a statue.

'I am going to enjoy teasing her'